Girl Power: Super charging your business by teaming up

When you are an entrepreneur the thought of teaming up with someone else can seem pretty daunting. You have to open yourself and your business to criticism, change, new perspectives and new attitudes. But in the ever changing world of business, and especially in our recent economy finding likeminded go getters to brainstorm ideas with and share some of the ways you have weathered the storm is one of the best ways to sharpen your business knife in preparation for the fights ahead.

So why are women not teaming up in drowns, trying to do the best to reinforce their business principals and ensure their business is on solid ground?

While some may say its pettiness, or competitiveness or part of a refusal to reach back I think the answer could be found in something as simple so people not knowing how. Where we first learn to work together begins in school but forced collaboration often ends in disappointment. Especially for the type A personality you normally find in entrepreneurs. While you press forward others lag behind forcing you to pull them in order to get the results you desire. But in a grown up version, with likeminded peers the result can be much different. You just have to be prepared to learn or relearn how successful collaboration works.

By no means is this easy. Whether this is someone in a similar business or someone where there is potential for business synergy you have to learn to put trust and active listening first. This happens at its best when both parties realize there is a boundless field for potential and income when you are tuned into the needs of your audience and how you can best uniquely serve those needs. Yes this simple fact means that for my business, although I am a business law attorney, I am not competing with another business law attorney I may choose to collaborate with. While it seems like we are geared towards the same audience my true goal is to find clients that I can service best given my skills set. So the old saying “you are your own competition” proves tried and true. When both people accept this then the sharing can begin and that is where the power is. Having someone similarly situated to bounce ideas, wins and losses off of can change the game for your business, assuring you that you are not alone in the fight for success and others are praying for and supporting your successes, not your downfalls. It is a comforting breath of fresh air in the concrete jungle of entrepreneurialship.